Oriental Reed-warbler Kaeng Krachan area Thailand Jan 01, 2025 (1 Viewer)

[49bentley]

Can someone please confirm this to be an Oriental Reed-warbler? Taken in Kaeng Krachan area Thailand Jan 01, 2025
Thanks
Chris

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

It looks like a Phylloscopus warbler, but it's harder to tell which one. Perhaps one of the Arctic group?

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Andrew.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Grahame.

 

[johnallcock]

Definitely a Phylloscopus, but I get the impression of a Dusky Warbler from the head pattern. A difficult photo though, with a lot of the useful features hidden.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Johnallcock.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Definitely a Phylloscopus, but I get the impression of a Dusky Warbler from the head pattern. A difficult photo though, with a lot of the useful features hidden.

I wondered about that but there seems to be the hint of a wing bar.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Andrew. There does seem to be a hint of a wing bar.

 

[johnallcock]

I wondered about that but there seems to be the hint of a wing bar.

There does, and I puzzled about that too. But my impression is that it's slightly too far up the wing and the greater coverts seem to extend beyond the wing bar so I wasn't entirely sure if it's actually a wing bar or a photo artefact. It's one of the reasons I said that useful features are hidden - a slightly different angle to confirm presence/absence of a wing bar would make the ID process easier! A better idea of structure, bill shape/pattern, upperpart colour and wing length would be useful as well.
Other features - broad, dark eyestripe, supercilium shape, darker breast and flanks, and what looks like creamy undertail coverts - all looks like Dusky to me.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Johnallcock.